Xanthosia dissecta

Xanthosia dissecta is a prostrate, tufted herb that typically grows to a height of with much-branched stems and low-lying branches. Its leaves are mostly at the base of the plant, long and wide on a petiole up to long. The leaves are 2 or 3 times dissected, with linear to egg-shaped lobes long. The inflorescence is arranged in leaf axils or on the ends of short branches with up to 3 umbellules with 1 or 2 rays. Each partial umbel is subtended by a linear to narrowly elliptic involucral bract long. The sepals and petals are about long, the petals white or reddish. Flowering occurs in spring or summer. ==Taxonomy and naming==

Xanthosia dissecta was first formally described in 1840 by Joseph Dalton Hooker in Icones Plantarum from specimens collected by Ronald Campbell Gunn in Tasmania. The specific epithet (dissecta) means "deeply divided". ==Distribution and habitat==

Xanthosia dissecta grows in wet heath, and heath woodland near streams or swamps south from Lawson, New South Wales and Bulli Pass in New South Wales, in southern Victoria and Tasmania. ==References==